The 2004 Mexico Global Views Survey is the first ever
comprehensive study of Mexican public and leadership opinion on
international affairs. The study is designed to measure general
attitudes and values concerning Mexico's relationship with the world
rather than opinions on specific foreign policies or issues. This
year's survey was conducted in cooperation with the Chicago Council on
Foreign Relations' (CCFR) study GLOBAL VIEWS 2004: AMERICAN PUBLIC
OPINION AND FOREIGN POLICY (ICPSR 4137). Approximately one-third of
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The 2004 Mexico Global Views Survey is the first ever
comprehensive study of Mexican public and leadership opinion on
international affairs. The study is designed to measure general
attitudes and values concerning Mexico's relationship with the world
rather than opinions on specific foreign policies or issues. This
year's survey was conducted in cooperation with the Chicago Council on
Foreign Relations' (CCFR) study GLOBAL VIEWS 2004: AMERICAN PUBLIC
OPINION AND FOREIGN POLICY (ICPSR 4137). Approximately one-third of
the questions on the Mexican and American surveys were asked of the
general public in both countries. The thematic emphases of the surveys
are the rules and norms of foreign policy interaction between nations
and within international organizations and the bilateral relationship
between Mexico and the United States. The Mexico survey also
emphasizes Mexico's foreign policy decision-making processes as well
as its relations with other countries and regions. Part 1 contains
data pertaining to a survey conducted to interview members of Consejo
Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales, A.C. (The Mexican Council on
Foreign Relations - COMEXI). Part 2 is a survey of the general
public. In particular, this study covers (1) Mexicans, Mexican
identity, and the world, (2) Mexico's role in the world, (3) global
governance, the use of force, and international institutions, (4)
foreign relations, and (5) relations with the United States. Regarding
Mexicans, Mexican identity, and the world, respondents were asked the
importance they placed on various government activities, their
interest in the news, their contact with the world, their sense of
self-identity, and whether Mexico should have its own foreign policy
or follow the United States' lead. On the topic of Mexico's role in
the world, respondents were asked their views on the direction of the
world, critical threats to Mexico's vital interests, and Mexico's role
against terrorism and in world affairs. Concerning global governance,
the use of force, and international institutions, respondents rated
several international organizations, and commented on the impact of
globalization, and foreign investment. On the subject of foreign
relations, respondents provided their views on why it was important
for Mexico to diversify its relations with the countries of Europe,
Latin America, and Asia, the importance of other regions in the world,
how to handle disputes in Latin American countries, and their feelings
on several individual countries. Regarding relations with the United
States, respondents were asked how they felt toward the United States,
how much cooperation they favored between the United States and
Mexico, who was more responsible for handling common United
States-Mexico problems, and their feeling on the North American Free
Trade Agreement. A set of influential policy leaders was asked their
attitudes in order to assess whether the attitudes of the leaders
aligned with those of the general public. Background information on
respondents includes gender, age, education, employment status,
income, religion, and political party affiliation.

Universe:
Part 1: Members of Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos
Internacionales, A.C. (The Mexican Council on Foreign Relations -
COMEXI). Part 2: Adult population of Mexico aged 18 and older.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The data files may contain foreign language
characters.

The data contain weight variables that should be used
for analysis.

Methodology

Sample:
For Part 1, of the 230 total members of COMEXI, all 176
who were Mexican and living in Mexico were contacted by telephone.
Eighty-two of those contacted completed the survey. While the
leadership survey should not be considered representative of Mexico's
political, business, and cultural leadership, it does reliably capture
a significant sector of these leaders with an interest in and
influence on Mexico's foreign policy. They include administration
officials belonging to different ministries as well as other agencies
dealing with foreign policy, members of Congress (senators and
deputies) or their staff, state government officials or staff and
administrators, active members of Mexico's political parties, business
and financial executives, university faculty and researchers, leaders
of organizations active in foreign affairs, top executives of
consulting firms, journalists from Mexico's major newspapers as well
as writers and staff of major magazines and foreign policy
publications, and leaders of trade associations. For Part 2, the
general public survey was based on a probabilistic sample
design. Respondents in the north states bordering the United States
and the relatively sparsely populated regions of the southeast were
oversampled. The sample design was based on a list of 63,594 election
stations defined by the Federal Election Institute for the 2003 Mexico
federal elections. The selection process used was multistage
sampling, in which the first stage was the grouping of sections in the
same state and township. This produced 6,080 section conglomerates.
The selection of 75 conglomerates was then done through random
sampling with probabilities proportional to the size of the electoral
list. The second stage consisted of choosing two electoral sections
inside a conglomerate, selected through random sampling with
probabilities proportional to the size of the sections. In the next
stages, blocks and then residences were selected randomly with equal
probabilities. Within the residences, respondents were chosen using
quotas for age and sex based on known demographic characteristics,
according to the 2000 Mexican Census.

Data Source:

personal interviews and telephone interviews

Response Rates:
No information was provided regarding response rates
for Part 1. The overall response rate for Part 2 was 60 percent.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2005-02-11

Version History:

2006-03-30 File CB4136.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.